Mechanical Waves

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Please help check my answers I really want to make a 100%!1. A mechanical wave moves through a medium, which can be (1 point) A.
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A particle is moving with SHM of period 16s and amplitude 10m. Find the speed of the particle when it is 6.0m from its
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is the vibration of a spring, a longitude wave.
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Select all of the following that are correct about mechanical waves.a They can be longitudinal. b They can propagate in a
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1. Which of the following statements about mechanical waves is true?a. mechanical waves require a medium to travel through b.
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Mechanical wavesneed a medium to flow through do not need a medium to flow through exist in space are always compression waves
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A coiled Hookean spring is stretched 10 cm when a 1.5kg mass is hung from it. Suppose a 4 kg mass hangs from the spring and is
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A weight attached to a long spring is bouncing up and down. As it bounces, its distance from the floor varies periodically with
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what is natural frequency in physics?
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A simple pendulum consists of a ball of mass5.39 kg hanging from a uniform string of mass 0.0789 g and length L. The period of
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Which would best model the motion of P waves?• pulling one end of a spring and releasing it • holding a ball up high and
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The position of a mass oscillating on a spring is given by x = (7.0 cm) cos [2πt/(0.71 s)].(a) What is the frequency of this
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What type of wave requires a medium (substance) to travel through? (1 point)Responses Sound Wave Sound Wave Radio wave Radio
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can mechanical waves travel through any type of medium?
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The displacement of a block of mass 778g778g attached to a spring whose spring constant is 38N/m38N/m is given by
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A helical spring of stiffness k is cut into two halves and a mass m is connected to the two halves.The natural time period of
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How are mechanical waves defined?(1 point)Responses They are waves that involve matter, rather than energy, moving from one
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define vibrations
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A 0.21 kg block oscillates back and forth along a straight line on a frictionless horizontal surface. Its displacement from the
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A weight is oscillating on the end of a spring. The position of the weight relative to the point of equilibrium is given by
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Shaking a towel up and down would create what type of wave in the towel?surface
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A block attached to a spring with unknown spring constant oscillates with a period of 7.0 s. Parts a to d are independent
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A wave that causes the particles of the medium to vibrate parallel to the direction the wave travels
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3. An astronaut lands on an alien planet. He places a pendulum (L = 0.200 m) on the surface and sets it in simple harmonic
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A vibration platform oscillates up and down with an amplitude of 10.2 cm at a controlled variable frequency. Suppose a small
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When a person is swinging the amplitude (the swings"s distance above it's rest position) increases with each pump. According to
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A phone cord is 4.75 m long. The cord has a mass of 0.200 kg. A transverse wave pulse is produced by plucking one end of the
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Damped mass spring system oscillates at 205 Hz. The time constant of the system is 6.6s. At t=0 the amplitude of oscillation is
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A mass m = 5.7kg is attached to two springs as it slides along a frictionless floor, while the springs are fastened to two
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A spring is stretched 5 × 10−2 m by a force of 5 × 10−4 N. A mass of 0.01 kg is placed on thelower end of the spring.
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Resonance
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How are mechanical waves defined?(1 point)Responses They are waves that are generated by humans, rather than naturally. They are
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QuestionWhich statement describes the transmission of mechanical waves?(1 point) Responses They can travel through matter and in
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Which statement describes the transmission of mechanical waves?(1 point)Responses They cannot travel through matter nor in a
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Which statement describes a transmission of a mechanical waves?
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of the following choices, which one is NOT a mechanical wave?a. seismic wave b. sound wave c. water wave d. light wave
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can mechanical waves transfer energy from particle yes or no
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The illustration depicts the categorization of two wave types.Waves: Yes -> mechanical waves: longitudinal wave transverse wave
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How does energy travel in a mechanical wave?Responses in a vacuum in a vacuum in time in time in a medium in a medium in space
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Characteristics of mechanical waves?they can be transverse they can be longitudinal they can propagate in a vacuum they can
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give the definition of the kind of wave motion: compression and rarefraction
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A _______ wave has particles that vibrate ______ to the direction in which the wave of enegry is travelingfill in the blanks
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Which of the tables below accurately displays the characteristics of mechanical waves? (1 point)Property Does a mechanical wave
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does he table below accurately displays the characteristics of mechanical waves?(1 point)(property) they can be transverse - yes
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does he table below accurately displays the characteristics of mechanical waves?(property) they can be transverse - no (does a
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does he table below accurately displays the characteristics of mechanical waves?(1 point)(property) they can be transverse - no
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PropertyThey can be transverse. Does a mechanical wave possess this property? Yes They can be longitudinal. Yes They can
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Which statement describes the transmission of mechanical waves?(1 point)Responses They can travel through matter and in a
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Which of the following tables correctly shows the properties of mechanical waves?A. Property Does a mechanical wave possess this
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Question 4 (1 point)Select all of the following that are correct about mechanical waves. a They can be longitudinal. b They can
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